As a holiday gift to you, please enjoy the special Christmas poem below:
(Taken from the 2020 Unity booklet: The Spirit of Christmas)
If Every Day Were Christmas
If every day were Christmas,
how different life would be,
if not one day but all the year
were ruled by charity.
Had we the faith in miracles
a child has Christmas morn,
each day would be love’s manger
and Christ would be reborn
in us again to change and heal
our outworn wars and ways—
had we a child’s or shepherd’s gift
for wonderment and praise!
Yet every day is Christmas
when we have learned to live
by love’s law, learned not how to get
but only how to give;
and like a child can wonder
and like a child can pray,
but have the grown-up wisdom
to give ourselves away.
~ Poem by James Dillet Freeman (1912–2003) — known as the Unity poet laureate. He wrote the “Prayer for Protection” and the poem “I Am There,” both taken to the moon by Apollo astronauts.